Improvement in cane-planters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOBIAS MARCUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANE-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 18,756, dated December 1, 1857.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that LTomAs MAReUs,of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful machine or attachment to be known underthe name and title of Marcus (Jane-Planter, and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, said drawing representing plan view and side view of my invention.

The nature of my invention consists in attaching to the common plow used in furrowing, or, more properly, the double molded plow commonly used for cleaning the furrow preparatory to laying the cane-plant, my machine, which is so constructed that while the plow cleans one furrow the attached machine will cover the cane-plants which have been placed in the adjoining furrow, thus (this attached machine) performing a labor that has heretofore been very slowly and expensively done with the hoe.

To enable others skilled in the art to make use of my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A beam is rst constructed of sufficient strength, (marked A in the drawings,) which passes through a socket, B, firmly attached to the beam of the plow. Any kind of a socket may be used which combines suliicient strength and firm ness. This beam is so constructed that it may in use be shoved through the socket, and the coveringplows,77 as they may be termed, adjusted on the other side ofthe common or cleaning plow.

The brace C is only attached for the purpose of giving greater strength and holdingthe bar or beam Ain its proper place; but any other bolt might be used for a like purpose.

Upon the beamAare attached, by the means ofthe string-sockets D D, two covering-machines varying but little in form from parts of the ordinary plow, consisting of a share imperfectly represented in the drawings by the pieces marked E E, the movable molding-board F, the colter Gr, the upright H, and the bars J, K, and L, inserted in and at right angles to the upright, the latter of which should vary in size, according to strength ot' material.

The circular slide M and screws are for the purpose of giving such inclination to the molding-board as the particular soil may require.

The curved bar N is to support the beam A. Bolts may be used in place of screws in all cases when practicable.

The operation is as follows: Two furrows having been made, and the rstone cleaned with the common plow, and the cane-plants placed in the first ready for covering, this machine, by means ot' the beam A and curved bar N, is attached to the cleaning-plow, as before described, the two covering-machines being so adjusted on the bea-m that when the cleaning-plow is placed in the bottom of the second furrow the bottom of these machines will be on a level with the original earth, asit was before plowing, and their distances from the plow must be so adjusted that they will run a sufficient distance from each side ot' the first furrow to cut otl and carry into it a sufficient amount of the mold or earth that has been thrown on the sides by plowing the furrow, t0 cover to a proper depth the cane-plants. Thus by passing the cleaning-plow through the second furrow the cane-plants in the first have been covered. When at the end of the furrow the machines are slid from the beam which is shoved through the socket, and the machines attached to it in the same manner on the other side of the plow, which is done by simply inverting them so that the molding-boards will incline toward each other and changing the shares, which are attached by a socket to the foot 0f the upright. The third furrow having been rough plowed, and the cane-plants placed in the second furrow by persons following the machine, the cleaning-plow is passed through the third furrow and the cane-plants in the second furrow are covered as in the first, and by changing again the same is repeated, and so on. Thus this machine will in a day perform a labor that would require more than thirty hands.

What I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is

The adjustable mold-board F, arranged and operated by means of the circular slide M, in combination with the adj ustable beam A and socket B, secured by braces G and N, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described, and shown in the drawings and specitication.

TOBIAS MARCUS.

Witnesses:

A. J. MosEs, L. PITKIN. 

